Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-03-17

their murderers should not destroy
their memories while it consumed |
their bodies.
These men died for q national
cause-for one seven centuries old
for cause older than the tyranny it
oombats, and which it must destroy in
the end. The cause for which they |
died was a national one, and not a
hopeless one. Tyranny is old, but
liberty is older. When Magma
Charta was wrung from John of Eng
land by the Norman, barons; when
Brian smote the Dane upon the strand
of Clontarf; when tho gallant Mac
cabee scattered the hosts of Anti.
ochus like chat, and gave to Judea
the scepter to which she was a
stranger; when Marathon and Their
mopyla were enacted; before the ark
foated upon the waters which covered
the primeval world, tyranny was
hoary with age; millions of men and
myriads of people bent beneath its
power. Away in the first dawn of
human history we find its iron i'm
print. But beyond it, earlier than it,
and of Divine origin, we find liberty.
In the great morning of the world
the spirit of God with might un-
furled the flag of freedom over chaos,
and all Its banded anarshs fed like
vultures frighted from Imaus before
an earthquake tread. Liberty is the
natural condition of man; it is indel-
IDLY written upon the human heart
and intellect. Pile upon it the bloody
record of tyranny's work for nearly
5000 years, and the mighty weight
brushes it not. Friends, so it is with
the fatherland for which these men
died.
They were not disheartened be-
cause of the sad heritage of seven
centuries of woe; No! They felt as
, you feel, as feel: that liberty is more
, than seven centuries old-imperish-
able-indestructible; it lives and is a
| living power, potent to arm a nation
once again, and to inspire the here
, and the martyr to conquer and to die
This feeling, for some wise purpose, il
, inherent and inextinguishable in the
t Irish race. Their memory calls az
the ancient glory of the land-cre
:, atoms like the mirage, reproducing
. the forms and outlines of things tina
: have being.
/ "Ireland has long memory" say
, Augustin Thierry, the eminent FrencI
essayist and historian. "She forget
not her wrongs. The manacle irri
:; tates but does not enslave her." He
history is comprised in that sentence
for each generation of lrish-born mel
have protested according to the fash
ion of their times against the ell
slavers of their land. Such has beef
her conduct for 700 years. Consist
ent, connected resistance and revol
follow from her political irritation il
;. the regular order of cause and effect
y One is crushed out in lood-"A
heroes in their fall throw dust t.
Heaven" from the dust spring thei
avengers. The peculiarities of thu
times fashion the resistance into shape
but the connection is unbrok en-
From O'Connor to McMurragh-fron
> McMurragh to silken Thomas-fron
Thomas to the two great Hughes
lO'Neill and O'Donnell-from O'Don
nell and O'Neill, in 1898, to O'Moor'
and Owen Roe in 1642-from Over
Roe to Sars6eld in 169S-from Sars
field to Swift--from Swift to Grattal
and the volunteers in 17S2-from tn
volunteers to the men of '98, Ton
Murphy and Fitzgerald-from tn
men of '9S to Emmett in 1803-fron
Emmett to O'Connell-from O'Connel
to O'Brien and the men of '4S-fror
= the men of AS to the martyrs c
1867, O'Brien, Larkin, Allen-no ga
is in her history, full of suffering an
oppression though it be-no genera
ton of men lived and died withou
furthering that connected resistanc
Of that comes hereditarily to the preser
10 generation through the dreary length
r of seven centuries of war and tut
lie MOL.
e, Length of years, blood, tears, d.
10 feat, disaster-no means known
Of savage or civilized men can or coul
'e extinguish the Evolutionary faith